Cashback for Communities
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CashBack for Communities Glasgow Local Authority 2015/16 About CashBack for Communities CashBack for Communities is a Scottish Government programme which takes funds recovered from the proceeds of crime and invests them into free activities and programmes for young people across Scotland. Inspiring Scotland is the delivery partner for the CashBack for Communities programme, appointed in July 2012. CashBack invests monies seized from criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 back into our communities. Since 2008 the Scottish Government has committed £92 million to CashBack / community initiatives, funding community activities and facilities largely, but not exclusively, for young people. CashBack supports all 32 Local Authorities across Scotland. Sporting and recreational activities / culture / mentoring and employability / community projects. CashBack has delivered nearly 2 million activities and opportunities for young people. Phase 3 of CashBack runs to end March 2017 and is focused on positive outcomes for young people. CashBack for Communities: Aims CashBack activities: . Use the proceeds of crime in a positive way to expand young people’s horizons and increase their opportunities to develop their interests and skills in an enjoyable, fulfilling and supportive way. Are open, where possible, to all children and young people, while focusing resources in those communities suffering most from antisocial behaviour and crime. Seek to increase levels of participation to help divert young people away from ‘at risk’ behaviour, and will aim to increase the positive long-term outcomes for those who take part. Current CashBack Investment . Creative Scotland . YouthLink Scotland . Basketball Scotland . Celtic FC Foundation . Scottish Football Association . Youth Scotland . Scottish Rugby Union . Glasgow Clyde College . Scottish Sports Futures . Ocean Youth Trust . Street Soccer Scotland . Prince’s Trust Scotland . Action for Children . sportscotland The CashBack Partners in Phase 3 (2014-2017) YOUTH CULTURE SPORTS YOUTH WORK EMPLOYABILITY MENTORING Basketball Ocean Youth Action for Children Scotland Trust KEY: Scottish Football Youth Scotland Celtic FC Delivery organisations Foundation Creative Scotland Association Grant Schemes Scottish Rugby Glasgow Clyde Union College YouthLink Prince’s Trust Scottish Sports Scotland Scotland Futures Street Soccer Scotland Glasgow - Historic CashBack funding (2008 -2016) Activity number represents the number of activities and opportunities that young people have taken advantage of as a result of CashBack funding. It should be noted that CashBack partners may have worked with some of the same young people over a number of years. Therefore the total annual activity and opportunity figures might not directly correlate to the number of individual young people who have been involved with CashBack. Historic CashBack funding (2008 -2016) Examples of CashBack funded activities up to 2016 Youth Work has been funded through the Cashback programme since 2008. The Small Grants Scheme was established to support local authority led youth groups who may not previously have had access to external funding. The programme Small Grant Scheme has been managed by Youth Scotland and uniformed organisations who have received funding include various Scouts, Boys’ Brigade and Girls Brigade companies who received over £147,000 in funding. Additional funding for Youth work in the Glasgow area has been provided through YouthLink Scotland’s Youth Work Fund. This has been running since 2008 when CashBack started. The Youth Work Fund builds the capacity of young people and the youth work organisations who work to support them. Over £1,492,000 was been invested in Youth Work in Glasgow since 2008. The Amateur Boxing Academy was funded in the Glasgow area at several clubs including Argo ABC, Bellahouston ABC, Kelvin ABC, North Glasgow ABC, Noble Art ABC, Partick ABC, and Rob Roy ABC.It provided 10 to 19 year olds the chance to take part in a non-contact form of Amateur Boxing. The training programmes combine fun, games and exercise plus a chance to develop boxing skills. It also teaches core values such as fair play and self-discipline along with confidence building and maintaining a healthy diet and balanced lifestyle. Jump2it, as part of the Scottish Sports Futures programme, has been delivered in Glasgow from 2012-14, with 54 Schools receiving the health and citizenship programme. Link Up operated projects in Possilpark and the Gorbals, with respective host organisation North Glasgow Housing Association and Crossroads Youth and Community Association. Key partners within these projects included Bridging the Gap, Gorbals Parish Church, Way to Go café, Citizen’s Theatre, St Francis Primary School, Chancers Women’s Group, New Horizon’s Group for local community workers and an Older People’s group. Creative Scotland operated a range of funded projects across dance, film and music. Examples include Dance House, an innovative participation project that will connect marginalised groups using bus routes throughout the city; Project Ability, aimed at additional need secondary schools encouraging greater interaction and shared learning between staff, pupils and parents from different schools and backgrounds across Glasgow; and SPL Trust, a vibrant project taking place at 14 football clubs across Scotland, engaging young people in high quality informal music making, using the power, brand and pull of major Scottish Football clubs. Scottish Football Association (SFA) operated Schools of Football, which is a social and academic programme designed to use football as a tool to engage with S1 – S2 pupils from areas of social deprivation. Girls and Women’s Club Development Officers were funded to work proactively to engage with girls to support an increase in participation across 9 – 24 year old females, develop an infrastructure which will support lifelong participation in sports for girls and can cope with the increased activity and link all this activity to clubs staffed with female coaches developed by Cashback funds. Another project, Volunteer Development has underpinned a great majority of the current activity which develops volunteer coaches to staff Cashback 7’s, Midnight Leagues, Street Football and work within clubs. Football Equity, directed more specific focus on Ethnic Minority communities and assisting their opportunities to engage with programmes (either CB or SFA) and then into clubs to break down racial stereotypes and increase the wellbeing of neighbourhoods and football teams. Other projects funded were Bank of Scotland Midnight Leagues, Street Football and CashBack 7’s. Scottish Rugby Union, CashBack funding was used to part-fund five full-time and one part-time Development Officers in partnership with Cartha RFC, Glasgow Hawks RFC, Glasgow University and Glasgow Life. These posts were responsible for the delivery of the broad participation programme, Schools of Rugby and street rugby. Street Rugby was delivered in various Glasgow locations including Tinto Community Centre, Wellhouse Hub, Balgray Hill, The Connie, Scotstoun Community Centre and Yoker Community Centre. Since 2012, Shawlands Academy and St Andrews RC High School have been Schools of Rugby, which monitors pupil behaviour, skill development and physical competence. The school has provided evidence on the impact the programme is having on some challenging and disengaged young people, as well as growth of rugby participation throughout the school. Glasgow Clyde College in conjunction with Scottish Power ran a number of ‘taster sessions’ for young people who have been identified as showing an interest in engineering, with a view to getting the young people on the road to training and possible employment in the power industry. This piece of work links into the referral agencies and those agencies supporting young people who are not currently in employment or training, and who have a criminal record or deemed to be at risk of offending behaviour. Working on Wheels conducted a variety of work including Play Talk Read initiative and supporting The Salt & Light bus, which provided outreach work, providing support, food and clothing to women on the streets of Glasgow. Glasgow – CashBack Outcomes: Case Studies CashBack has made a huge difference to the lives of young people. We have captured information on individual case studies for CashBack partners which demonstrate the impact delivery activities have had to those participating. These can be accessed on the CashBack website at http://www.cashbackforcommunities.org/ K aged 17 from Carntyne Glasgow completed the first Gateway to Employment as part of the Celtic FC Foundation CashBack programme. She said that her favourite part of the GTE project was the two days at the Scottish Fire and Rescue doing the fire fighter taster days. K updated her CV while on the project and took part in several different personal development sessions. “I really enjoyed the personal resilience session from Martha but the best part was the fire fighter taster days!” She took part in all the physical activities and showed a great improvement from her initial bleep test to her final one. K is now working at Primark as a retail assistant full time having worked at the Celtic Superstore part time after completing the GTE project. K did a work placement at the superstore which led to her applying and being successful in getting part time employment there. When asked did this help her with finding the fulltime post with Primark she said “When